The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth

Moving in orbit around our Sun are millions of rocks known as asteroids.Now scientists have plans to capture one. A Send a robot into space, catch an asteroid and bring it back to Earth's orbit. This, say scientists and engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), could be feasible. A four-day workshop was dedicated to investigating the feasibility of capturing a near-Earth asteroid, bringing it closer to our planet and using it as a base for future manned space-fligh...